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There are a plethora of choices today! I personally have converted to this new medium, (thus I don't have to pack bags of film or worry about airport X-ray issues!) I have the following points to offer you: If you are buying an SLR camera that will take your existing interchangeable lenses, expect to spend serious money. The Nikon D100 body alone can be found selling for about U.S. $ 1,000.00 (May 2006), and the excellent new Nikon D70 for $ 999.00.

Low-resolution digital images can be transmitted instantly via e-mail to anywhere in the world. Large prints can be produced from high-resolution digital images. Graphics and labeling can easily be added to digital images. Digital proof images can be viewed by the client the same day as the flight. Custom cropping, color correction and haze-reduction techniques can be applied to digital images in the "Digital Darkroom".

Luminous Landscape (useful comparisons shot with different gear, but I often disagree with their conclusions)

The features that make a good camera for product photography are not necessarily the features that are important for other types of photography like portraits or everyday family photos. That's not to say that the camera you choose for product photography won't work well for other uses, but you may weight the relative importance of the various features differently.

Yes. We have some examples of letters that you can use. We also describe how to structure a proposal and how we write a proposal. In those sections we also discuss some techniques for effective business writing, such as using the active voice. One of the best tools you can have is a good "handbook of grammar", (as well as a good dictionary). The "handbook" can be purchased in most larger bookstores, and certainly in any college or university bookstore.

WebMonkey has a great Digital Photography For The Web tutorial that teaches you almost everything you'll need to know to make your photos ready for the web.

Digital cameras offer you a very important advantage over film. They give you the capability to see and evaluate your pictures immediately. The downside of digital cameras, though, is that they are not nearly as forgiving of mistakes as film. For example, film has an extremely wide exposure latitude…the amount you can miss your exposure by and still get a good print…that extends from one stop under to three stops over. Digital cameras give you only plus or minus 1/2 stop.

You can either shoot your own photos, borrow a friends digital camera, or if you live within 50 miles from Carlton, MN, we can come to your location and take digital photos for you. If you send us raw photos that need to be edited, scanned, enhanced, resized, etc., there may be a small fee for editing, depending upon what has to be done. Please see our contract for more detailed information.

We still have film, but use that as back up. Our digital equipment will allow us to make up to 30 x 40 prints of the same quality that we would get when we shot with our medium format film camera's.

Digital photography is an exciting technology which has revolutionized the photography industry over the recent years. It is the key reason we can keep our prices so extremely low. With technology advancing we can now produce film quality photos in a fraction of the time as traditional methods. Traditional and digital both have their pros and cons, however, digital is the standard for photography used on the internet.

There is no question that some of today's digital cameras can produce an image that is sharper and shows more detail than film.But digital is a very different medium than film and I still feel film has some useful qualities that are not yet present in digital. Also film can always be scanned into a digital format later (the way most Hollywood movies and TV commercials and shows are made.) The critical factor for you should be how good the photographer is at using the medium of their choice.

A. I never have to limit the number of images I can photograph at your wedding. I am not wasting film, so I can keep shooting until I get the exact moment I want. B. We used to be limited to the type of film in our camera, no more. Now I can give you any image you want in color, black & white or sepia. C. Digital has made all kinds of art work more available and affordable.

Answer: For many years I was a dedicated film user and was reluctant to switch to digital. With a few Photoshop classes for nature photographers behind me I wish I had made the switch years earlier. Digital cameras and Photoshop are incredibly powerful tools and they will only get better.

The candid/photojournalistic aspects of your Wedding Day will be shot in High Resolution Digital, and you have the option of having your formal/portrait photography shot in Digital as well, or on Medium Format Film. Though I recommend Medium Format for all portrait work, I want to leave that choice up to you. I offer either option at the same price because I don't want cost to be a factor in your decision.

In the wrong hands digital images can suffer from poor colour or density, undue digital noise, unnatural sharpening, over or under exposure and loss of detail in the highlights or shadows. By hiring a professional you can guarantee that all of these issues will be avoided with the correct exposure, lighting, colour and density calibration and technical experience to achieve stunning results.

Digital photography is just as good if not better than 35 mm photography. Prints for digital images make beautiful enlargements up to 20 x 30 inches. Digital photography is useful when you will require enlargements larger than 11x14 inches in size. Otherwise, if you are expecting to have enlargements no larger than 11x14 you do not need digital photographs. Both 35mm & digital photographs come out 4x6 inches and will produce fine quality reprints and enlargements up to 11x14 inches in size.

Remember that background light is a factor. Unless you have a camera which is designed for this, avoid bright sunny days, as the light will affect the picture. If taking a picture of a group of people, try going for a ´natural´ look, instead of having the group pose. Making it look like you caught a group of people in the act of going about their daily business is an example of a natural look.

you are not always guaranteed to get extremely close to the wildlife, a typical "point-and-shoot" camera may be insufficient. A 35mm SLR (single lens reflex) camera with an interchangeable lens is recommended. A 35-70mm lens works well for landscapes; a zoom lens such as a 70-210mm lens is good for moving subjects; and a long lens such as an 80-200mm lens is good for wildlife photography.

I used to photograph all my weddings on film and do all the printing by hand in my darkroom. But now that digital photography and digital cameras have become of such fantastic quality I shoot only on digital. The photographs and prints are just as beautiful and in fact often work out to be of an even higher standard due to the increased flexibility and ease of production and post-production that the digital process offers.